Chile suffers evil societies transplanted, those born from the conquest of native peoples. Never conquerors recognized the primal possession of the territories to indigenous peoples. On the contrary, they have been stripped of all they had, and embarked on a policy extermination. They have committed genocide and ethnocide.
The Spanish empire was not the first. In its overseas expansion articulated the new laws of the Indies, to ensure continuity of labor and regulating the conditions of forced labor in mines and mills to not stall the production of gold and silver work.
There was no humanity in them, only interest. The rest is philosophical discussion. Modern racism is part of colonial capitalism of the sixteenth century, where slavery became the core of the process of capital accumulation. After independence, in Latin America there was no change; the Creoles they converted to the new masters of the countries and territories, took over the mainland. There were no peace or freedom for the native indigenous people, just blood and destruction.
Of course under the euphemism of "civilizational wars." So the agricultural frontier and the power of the landowning oligarchies expanded. The dominant mono-ethnic society, with their culture and world imposed the yoke of exploitation by adopting the formula of internal colonialism, a condition "sine qua non" to keep harvesting them, their wealth and heritage.
The myth of racial superiority ethnic force in Chile and Latin America expressed daily. Not yet known, the limits of racial capitalism.
Mapuche, Maya, Cunas, Aymara, Tupi-Guarani are considered enemies of progress and country. In the XXI century are faced with policies of neoliberal extermination. The expansion of the agricultural frontier, the transgenic soya monoculture, plantations of eucalyptus, the mining megaprojects,hydraulic, whose destination is the old Europe and China, and increased violence and yearning of the transnational corporations to appropriate the last spaces which were relegated to the late nineteenth century.
A death war has been declared against indigenous peoples. Natural resources in their territories make them prey to the new masters of the world. Water, minerals, flora and fauna, equivalent to gold and silver sixteenth century. Attended a date that has nothing to envy to that practiced by their counterparts in the nineteenth century version. The difference is found in the deployment of forces, war technology and legal ways to justify extermination. An international community deaf, dumb, preferring to look the other side of the table full of ethnocide.
At the end of the day, everyone gains in the medium and long term. Speculators, multinational corporations and landowners. In southern Chile it practiced all and every one of the guidelines to end the Mapuche people.
Michelle Bachelet's government has increased harassment policies with low-flying raids, evictions and burning of communal lands, keeping the militarization of the southern regions; at par, explores the dismantling of organizations, criminalizes their demands, consents torture and imprison Mapuche leaders.
For political leaders who have ruled the country after the end of dictatorship, whether emócratacristianos, socialists or right party, the Mapuche are a nuisance,whose existence should be reduced to a few pages of the books of history and anthropology.
The war of extermination, which has for centuries been submitted to the Mapuche as worthless, soulless without patriotic sense, treacherous, drunk, violent and dangerous. Best finish them once and for all. Pinochet tried it for 17 years by taking away their land, and tender these lands to companies and landowners, who were rubbing their hands with their new acquisitions. The crackdown on Lonko (Mapuche community leaders) involved the dismantling of decades of struggles and demands on their territories.
The Mapuche people suffering the consequences of a society, Chile as a whole, which despises. There is nothing worse than the colonial paternalism, constant treatment to which they were subjected. Former Socialist President Ricardo Lagos took this situation to a head inaugurating "policy of the new treatment of Mapuche". In short, they had to accept the terms offered by the State or suffer the consequences of rejecting them. Unexpectedly, shortly after, state violence against the Mapuche people was increasing, which prevails today and currently it maintains.
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